Schooling along the color line: Progressives and the education of blacks in the new south

From: The Journal of Negro Education | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Perhaps one of the most neglected features of the history of postbellum Black education is the role of White southern university leaders in proselytizing the northern-inspired and financed industrial education movement to their fellow southerners. This article examines the writings and speeches of several "progressive" southern academics who formed the linchpin of the industrial education crusade. It shows how, as advocates for school reform, these intellectuals lent the authority of their institutions and the weight of their ideas to promote and defend an educational system designed to ...

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